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Police reports show the suspects lost control of their car on the corner of Huntington and Parker St., where their car hit a light pole...
Skier Ulrike Maier, seeking a few extra points for her World Cup standing in a routine downhill race in the final season of a career that had already brought two world championships, broke her neck last month and died. Conditions were unquestionably risky. The timer pole that she hit was controversially sited. And Maier, a consummate pro, knew the dangers. But the slope was familiar, and 67 other competitors that day survived uneventfully. Her death emphasized for athletes and audiences alike the inherent risk in the Olympic goal of pushing "faster, higher, stronger" to the limit. It also underscored...
...loss left the Crimson a dejected prime contender for the bottom position on the Ivy League totem pole...
...Missouri River had torn the Everses' mobile home from its moorings and dashed it against a utility pole. Cedar City, a hamlet of fewer than 500 people where Tony was born and where the couple had married, was totally deluged. "Everything was wiped away," Missy told Lewers. "The whole town was gone." For the next three months the couple and their sons Mark, 9, and Corey, 2, stayed in motels and apartments across the river in Jefferson City...
...last months had been gruesome: treatments that could not save him, nights when she could not sleep. But she was sleeping soundly at his hospital bedside on the morning of Jan. 4 when Chris managed, somehow, without being seen or heard, to maneuver himself and his portable IV pole around her, out of the room and past the nurse's station with its 360 degrees view of the ward. All Melissa remembers is being shaken awake at 3 a.m. by a frantic nurse who was saying something about not being able to find Chris...